All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
CLAUDE MONETI must have flowers, always, and always.
More Claude Monet Quotes
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It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.
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Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.
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The more I live, the more I regret how little i know.
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My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
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Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It’s wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found – the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
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I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.
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